Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-13
WASHINGTON.
Assistant Secretary Of State Porter
Leaves for Home, but viii Not
Talk About His Resignation.
The Chief OF Engineers Makes His Re.
port IN Regard 20 ;he Work Done
On Sabine Pass.
Secretary Bsyard to Iuysstiguts the app +.
cation for a EtGuisttton In the re
Garigie Conspiracy Csc
GovrRNoR roRfEE's Rrs15NArloN.

GOVERNOR PORIEE'S RESIGNATION.
Speclsl 10 the Gazette.
WAsHNGroN, Sept. - -Ex-Assistsnt
Secretary OF State Porter lef- this sitter
coOn for his home in Nashville. Tenn. I.
il an open secret that General Porter re
signed his position owing to = conflict Of
between himself aud Secretary
BayaEd. He refused 70 discuss the mat
ter for publication. However, my in
tOrmGnJ states, and he Is in 3 position 10
know, that the two State Department OF
hCers have not exchanged pleasant word
for two months back. The first preach
occurred several months ago ". en- Gov
ernOT Porter complained 10 the Secretary
that papers on his desk hsd been mis-
placed ~ Mr.. Bayard's privste secretary.
This same private secretary has the hearty
hatred Of everyone around him and is
commonly referred to as the 'otiicial
spy" Replying 10 Governor P0rter's
Mr.. B2ysrd said that if the
exclusive air in the State Department did
not agree with Mr. Porter, his resigns-
ton
WOULD NOT BE OPPuSED.
This was the first time that Governor
Porter was snubbed and the last was in re
latIOn TO q consular matter over which he
was supposed to h8ve complete control
Secretary Bayard took the occasion Of the
difference to give his assistant TO under
stand that he was 10 have
no opinion of MS own, hence
the resignation. When General
Porter handed his resignation to the
President on Saturday, Mr.. Cleveland
urged him TO reconsider his action. Gov
ernor Porter bluntly replied that ne would
never sit in the Department agsiu while
Mr.. B4yerd WAS st It's head
THE CHINESE AMERICAN BkNk.-
Count MitkeOyielz says he VIII 90 TO
China as wee president Of the Chinese
American Bank There is general dCu5.
about this, however. Messrs Barker
and Payne, the two members OF the syn
dicate here, state to my informant they
could not afford TO Keep : man wish such
q record in the enterprise. Not alone
IN America bas the Counts record been
published, but tee nail for Cains
that 53fs closed LIST night, carried
duplicate copies Of all the stories printed
about him in the English papers Of
China. This, it is said, was done by
decision of the English legation, hence
the object is obvious. l. viii make
China very careful in the future of
merchants generally, and they viii prob
ably regard each as IN sdventurer until
they know positively to the contrary.
SABINE PASS IMPROVEMENT.
Special to the Gazette
WAsHINGION, sept. i2.-MsjOr W. H.
Heur, chief engineer, has submitted his
report for the month Of August, in which
he states that the contract of October
1856 for Sabine Pass was completed by
placing upon the east end Of the ietties
So tons of rock between 5000 and IA 900
feet from the short end of the je.tY.
Nothing was done st the Sabine and
NeChes river.
M'GARIGLE RRQCIsITION.
WASHINGTON, Sept. l2-The applica-
ton of the Governor Of Illinois for the
extra6itior f MCGarigle, the fugitive
Chicago ex-Warden, which mas been re
Celyed ct the Department of State, will
be reserved for the personal considera-
ton OF Secretary Baysrd when he re
turns to the city. As the rule of action
upon applications for extradition papers
is purely formal. the preliminsries 10
granting the request consist merely in an
examination of the extradltion treaties to
ascertain if the Cffense charged falls
within their terms. But it is understood
that in the present case the application
is made upon charge of conspir cy, for
which no provision IS made in the treaty
with Canada. A legal point OF gravity is
involved in the application, and It's con
sidersJiOn may, therefore, occupy some
time.
PROTECTING OUR CATTLE.
ACrIrN-fTnN-
Secretary has informed the, Commissioner
of Agriculture that reports from the L.
S. Consul at PiCtOu, n. S, received
through the Department, says that dan
gerous contagious disease exists in
Nova Scotia among cattle, horses aud
sheep which threatens the whole OF Can
ada and may spread 10 the United States
kilograms have been sent the collectors
Of customs on the northeastern frontier
notifying them Of the existence of the
disease and instructing them until further
notice to refuse all landing in the United
States of hides and animals from Nova
Scotia.
UNFAIR CRITICISM.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12-In regard TO
the purchase of bonds by the government
the President said tO-day 20 & representa-
1--WE "a VIC A>SSC4dNCQ IIE55. Inc Crltl-
ci5ms upon the action of the Treasury
Department from their refusal to accept
any Of the offers Of bonds last Wednes-
day, it seems to me, is incousiderateIy
made. In the first place the offers
were higher, considering the lapse of
time they mad to run, IMAM they had
heretofore been and did not present as
favorable terms TO the government. In
the next place the number offered was
much less than on former occasions.
these facts may well give rlsesto the in
terence that the people holding bonds
preferred them to money. The govern
ment wants to buy the bonds to answer
the requirements OF the law relating to
the sinking fund and is willing TO ad-
vance the interest on such bonds as
are not bought, and thus supply any
immediate demand there may be for
money. The two movements Of the
Treasury Department are calculated to
release great deal Of money and turn it
into business channels il required, but
they are both exective acts and must be
performed with due regard ~ the inter